In early 2024, Nintendo of America filed a massive lawsuit against Tropic Haze, the development team behind the Yuzu emulator. Nintendo argued that Yuzu was primarily designed to bypass Nintendo's encryption (specifically using cryptographic keys) to facilitate copyright infringement on a massive scale. Nintendo specifically cited that Tears of the Kingdom was downloaded over one million times prior to its official release date, with many of those players using Yuzu.
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